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Charles Ellis and Elizabeth Stewart Waring papers
Descriptive Summary | |
| Repository: | Georgia Historical Society |
| Creator: | Waring, Charles Ellis, 1900-1973. |
| Creator: | Waring, Elizabeth Stewart, 1903-1984. |
| Title: | Charles Ellis and Elizabeth Stewart Waring papers |
| Dates: | 1730-1975 |
| Extent: | 1.6 cubic feet (1 box, 3 oversize volumes, 3 binders) |
| Identification: | MS 1018 |
Biographical/Historical Note
Charles Ellis Waring (1900-1973) was a pioneer in the Savannah, Georgia, restoration movement. His lifelong interest in Savannah's history prompted him and his wife, Elizabeth Stewart Waring (1903-1984) to undertake a research project on Georgia maps.
Scope and Content Note
This collection consists of the three-volume map collection, correspondence, notes, and notebooks. The volumes contain photocopies of maps collected by the Warings, the result of their research on maps of Savannah, Georgia. The first two volumes were presented to the Georgia Historical Society on October 5, 1970; the third volume, completed by Elizabeth Waring after her husband's death, was given to the society in 1974.
The three volumes contain maps spanning Savannah's history from 1720 until 1897. The first two volumes are titled "Savannah and Its Environs." Volume I, 1733-1770, covers most of Savannah's colonial period: 1733-1752 under the Georgia Trustees, and 1752-1782 under the royal governors. The second volume, 1773-1897, continues with two maps from the colonial period through Georgia's "first century of freedom from British rule." Neither of the first two volumes contain military maps, as this was the focus of the third volume. Volume III continues the title and purpose of the first two volumes, coving years 1733-1903, but also contains "Defenses, 1720-1812." This portion of the third volume focuses on the eighteenth and nineteenth century defenses of Savannah, giving particular attention to Fort Halifax and to the Trustees Garden area "with particular emphasis on its military role and significance." The maps in these volumes were (mostly) arranged chronologically, and the source of each map is noted. The volumes also contain a narrative of "items of special interest and importance" regarding Savannah's history.
The remainder of the collection consists of correspondence pertaining to the copies of early maps of Savannah and its vicinity, including defenses. Sources of information include: the Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress, National Archives, Public Record Office in London, British Museum, University of Michigan Library, Boston Public Library, and Library of Harvard University. The correspondence is arranged chronologically.
Also included in the papers are notes and two notebooks detailing sites and the construction of early coastal Georgia forts. The notes include: information on Fort Wayne, Fort Argyle, Liberty Island (Dutch Island), Cockspur, Fort George, Fort Prevost, Fort King George, Old Fort Point; excerpts from the journal of the Earl of Egmont; excerpts from the Commons House of Assembly in 1757; copies of Sir James Wright's letters regarding fort construction; information on doing research in the National Archives and their collection; and a newspaper clipping on an ocean flight in 1913.
Index Terms
Location of Originals
Original maps in the following repositories: British Museum; Geographical Society of London; Harvard University Library; State Archives, Atlanta, Georgia; University of Michigan; Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; City Engineer's Office, Savannah, Georgia; Library of Congress; DeRenne collection, University of Georgia; Georgia Surveyor General Department; Savannah Public Library; Mills B. Lane IV (personal collection); National Archives, Washington D.C.; Historic Savannah Foundation, Davenport House; Southern Historical collection, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Charlton M. Theus, Jr. (personal collection); James G. Hardee (personal collection); Superior Court, Chatham County; Yale University Library; US Corps of Engineers, Savannah, Georgia; Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts.
Administrative Information
Custodial History
Material was acquired from creators.
Preferred Citation
[item identification], Charles Ellis and Elizabeth Stewart Waring papers, MS 1018, Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Charles Ellis and Elizabeth Stewart Waring, 1970 (map volumes I and II); Elizabeth Stewart Waring, 1974 (map volume III), 1978 (papers).
Restrictions
Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Georgia Historical Society. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Division of Library and Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Georgia Historical Society as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
Publication Note
Some maps were published in The Houstouns of Georgia by Edith Duncan Johnston; Collections of the Georgia Historical Society, IV op. 176; Colonial Records of the State of Georgia, comp. by A.D. Candler (1910), XXI, 375.
Sponsorship
Encoding funded by a 2012 Documenting Democracy grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.Container List
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| 4 | Correspondence, 1967 ( 13.0 items. ) | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents are: Walter W. Ristow; Charles E. Waring (5); Nathaniel N. Shipton; Susan B. Tate (2). | |||||||||||||
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| 5 | Correspondence, 1968 ( 35.0 items. ) | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents are: Charles E. Waring (20); Susan Barrow Tate (3); A.P. Muntz; Pat Bryant (2); Walter W. Ristow (2); Mary Flower (2). | |||||||||||||